I dislike USA Today. It feels like lowest common denominator fluffy news.

Also, I remember staying at a hotel once where they delivered one to every guest room.

SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

USA Today is news written for 5th graders. It has always been a waste of time and paper for anyone who really wants to know what's going on.

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micromacrofoot 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The people who can only read at a 5th grade level are precisely the people who need to be more informed about what's going on

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SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why? They mostly don't do anything very impactful. Voting and other civic engagement is very low amongst the illiterate.

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micromacrofoot 3 hours ago | parent [-]

not talking about illiteracy, ~50% of americans read at a 6th grade level or below... that's certainly enough to make an impact, the 2024 election was decided by ~250k votes across 3 states... Michigan specifically has a reading level below national average

	▲	SoftTalker 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And the percent of eligible citizens who vote is often not much more than 50% in presidential election years (higher recently but not for good reasons). It's even lower in mid-term years. If you're not an engaged, informed person and your worldview is based on USA Today headlines I'd rather you didn't vote.

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cindyllm 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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snickerbockers 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Im pretty sure I've only ever seen people read usa today when hotels give it away for free with the continental breakfast.

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pfdietz 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://www.amazon.com/Were-Eating-More-Beets-Trudeau/dp/080...

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bookofjoe 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I stayed at that hotel! I think it was the Peachtree something-or-other in downtown Atlanta, around 1980-85.

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bluGill 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They always have been. A few times I've read it and I was always disappointed. They are about all that is left though. I keep looking for someone with real reporters who cover my local area and I can't find it. Just big city papers that have an edition for my area but no reporters to dig into local stories.

	▲	snazz 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Does your local NPR station (or even PBS) have local journalists? Obviously their primary formats aren’t written, but my local NPR has a fantastic website also.

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bestouff 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't see you capitalized the T at first. The sentence was still somehow making sense.